A Petting Zoo Person is a type of character who is so anthropomorphized that they resemble an animal's skin, head and tail placed on an otherwise human body frame (think of one of those costumed, silent "mascots" at a sports event, or the costumed characters at Disney theme parks). This is a higher degree of anthropomorphism than the Funny Animal (who retain the general shape and proportions of the animal), but a step below those that are a Little Bit Beastly (whose only animal features are their ears and tail, possibly claws); in Japan, this level of anthropomorphism is referred to as "kemono" (which is shortened term of kemono-obito or beast-man, and is also what Japanese furry fans call themselves).

Petting Zoo People typically feature the following:

They possess the animal's full head and face, and (where applicable) the animal's tail. They may also feature animal-like claws and/or pads on their hands and feet.

Where Little Bit Beastly folks have human skin, Petting Zoo People possess fur-, feather-, or scale-covered bodies. Sometimes they have a mix of skin accented with heavy concentrations of fur (et al), a built-in Pretty in Mink as it were. Mammalian species with little to no fur by default (elephants, cetaceans, etc.) get a pass.

A female will typically have humanlike, styleable hair on her head. Male hair is less common but they may still have an identifiable style. Animals with manes are the "mane" exception.

While a Beast Man may have Animal Eyes, Petting Zoo People will usually have human eyes (with perhaps a wider variety than common eye colors).

While Funny Animals and Civilized Animals are sometimes or often treated like "normal" animals in their world, Petting Zoo People are typically recognized as a distinct sentient race.

Petting Zoo People are highly likely to feature in settings that also have baseline humans and/or non-bestial races such as mythical creatures and aliens, rather than a World of Funny Animals. (Though this is usually the opposite case for Furry Webcomics)

In-universe, Petting Zoo People are generally a distinct species from both humans and animals (as opposed to a Half-Human Hybrid), assuming the subject is addressed rather than simply glossed over.

There are two main variants of PZP beside the standard variant, "Borderline Petting Zoo People", and "Borderline Little Bit Beastly".

Borderline PZP have a body that does not look simply like an animal-accented human body, nor does it keep the basic shape of the animal entirely like a Funny Animal. They look partly humanoid and partly like their species, often they have either humanoid legs and non-humanoid torso, humanoid torso and non-humanoid legs, or look semi-humanoid all over. Many top heavy bipedal animal characters are of the humanoid torso and non-humanoid legs variety. Females are depicted with human-like breasts fairly often.

Borderline LBB have a animal-accented human face and body frame with the animal's ears, nose, tail (where applicable), markings, and sometimes fur, feathers, or scales. They have a mostly or nearly human-shaped head and little or no semblance of their species' muzzle. If they are a bird, they have the beak or bill respective to their species that is small regardless of their species on an otherwise human-shaped head. These are not to be confused with a Beast Man, which although he/she looks like this variant, he/she is a human with several animalistic physical and even behavorial traits.

Another variant is a character with a completely animalistic head, but a completely human body. Unlike most PZP, these have human skin from the neck down with no fur, feathers, or scales whatsoever and have completely human hands and feet. They also usually lack the tail of the animal they're based on. These are not to be confused with Little Bit Beastly, who are human all around, but have a few animalistic features.

In the early '00s, a German bank called Schwäbisch Hall had a feature on their website where you could ask a chatbot questions about their services and products. The chatbot used an anthro fox as an avatar.

At least three of Doraemon's Non Serial Movies have settings around anthropomorphic animals' societies, one having mixed up species, one having birds, and one having dogs and cats. They act and speak so similarly to the Earthlings that the heroes are always able to disguise themselves simply with animal outfits and use the language translation gum.

They are a common sight in the Dragon Ball series, even moreso in the earlier arcs. Major characters that fit this trope included Puar, Oolong, and Korin. Other examples of this trope are Captain Yellow (a tiger), a high-ranking officer of the Red Ribbon Army and King Furry (a dog), the King of Earth.

Captain Yellow's design in particular was likewise a reference to the Flying Tigers from World War II. The fact that he also happens to be a plane pilot also cements this.

In Endride, one of the two races, the Zoozians, are Petting Zoo People, although they show a very broad range from more humanoid to more animalistic (and in one odd case, more robotic) features. They come in every kind of animal form, some more aquatic and some more land-based. They are unfortunately subject to Fantastic Racism by the human race, the Endras. Somehow, the two species can produce children although it's rare because of the racial prejudice.

There's also Bepo, a polar bear wearing a jumpsuit in the Heart Pirates (led by Trafalgar Law). Additionally, a sharply dressed lion in shades named Pekoms is under one of the most powerful pirates in the world: "Big Mom" Charlotte Linlin of the Four Emperors. Both of them are later revealed to be Minks (see below).

Foxy also had three rat Petting Zoo People in his crew who helped him prepare for the grand match of Davy Back Fight.

The Mink Tribe is comprized of anthropomorphic talking animals, though exactly how anthropomorphic they are seems to vary between individuals. Two female members introduced in chapter 804, for example, are a Little Bit Beastly, while others are talking animals (like the aforementioned Bepo).

While most "human" characters in the world of A Centaur's Life are a Little Bit Beastly, the reptilian Antarcticans, who are a different species than "humans", have the heads and tails of snakes on mostly human looking bodies except for the claws and greenish skin color, although it is stated that they are not related to snakes, being warm blooded and reproducing like eusocial insects.

Arguably the design shift was codified with Patrick Spaziante's work, who did art for the comic rather early in its run (his earliest art for Issue 25 already uses a rather humanoid Sally for example); however, the designs only became consistent around the time artists such as Butler and Jay Axer began doing pencils for the series. This is true for Sally Acorn at least. Bunnie's more humanoid redesign was due to a canonical upgrade for her robotic limbs while Lupe was noticably more humanoid than the others, even in the cartoon.

Strangely, despite her human-like proportions, Sally is one of the only female Sonic characters in the franchise's history not to wear clothes, the others mostly found in the comics as well.

Blacksad is one of the currently most famous examples in the European comic book world, starring mostly animals of all kinds with very human-like bodies, ranging from straight-up PZP to Borderline Little Bit Beastly.

De cape et de crocs: The main leads are an anthropomorphic fox and wolf. They also are noblemen; and both have human Love Interests. Their sidekick is a rabbit (and former Guard of the Cardinal!)

Condorito has the eponymous Condorito and his nephew Coné, two humanoid Condors.

Most of the supporting cast of Sonic the Comic gradually turned into this. At first they were just animals standing on two legs, usually keeping their animalistic proportions (so, for instance, pig Porker Lewis had a large belly, and rabbit Johnny Lightfoot had notably longer hind legs), but after Robotnik took over Mobius most characters started wearing clothes and assumed more humanoid proportions. Porker's the most obvious example, as his pig trotters were replaced with five-fingered hands (presumably due to his status as the team's tech expert).

The more animalistic beings from Swordquest: Earthworld fall under this, such as King Leo, a humanoid lion who stands upright, has five-fingered hands tipped with claws, and a large orange mane and tail.

Super Angry Birds changes the characters of Angry Birds from minimalist cartoon birds and pigs to humanoid bird superheros and pig supervillains fighting each other in New York City.

Albedo: Erma Felna EDF has this, but with one partial exception: most bird species are still are in their usual avian body structures and are typically around to forego conventional clothes on duty outside of neckband displaying their ranks. Penguins are the exception since their body structures can allow for humanoid uniforms and environment suits to a reasonable degree.

The characters in My Cage are half-petting Zoo People/half-Funny animal. Taking place in a world where all the humans mysteriously disappeared off the face of the earth leaving the animals to take over and evolve into humanoid forms.

Ernest et Célestine takes place in a world of anthropomorphic mice and bears who live segregated from each other with mice underground and bears on the surface. The titular characters are a bear and mouse who become friends in spite of the Fantastic Racism between their kinds and commit crimes together to survive.

The ants in A Bug's Life stand upright and have only four limbs. Most other insects also stand upright and use their forelimbs as hands, though it varies.

The ants in Antz have four hand-like feet and two hands, though the feet move in pairs to give them a roughly bipedal stance anyway.

The statue of West Eastman High School's mascot (a bald eagle) from Alvin and the Chipmunks: The Squeakquel has a muscular human frame.

All of the characters in Bitter Lake, some of whom are also Mix-and-Match Critters, such a wolf man with horns. They are portrayed by people in high quality fursuits, as it was made by the Furry Fandom.

Arol in the Norwegian fantasy series Phenomena, who is an icebear commonly called "winter bear" in-story, but sometimes typoed(?) as icebear. He and his tribe wears clothes and armors and talks like everyone else and walks on two a lot. Though he runs on four.

The Fithp in Niven and Pournelle's Footfall have a lot of similar characteristics, both physically and with their "herd" culture, to elephants. This is lampshaded somewhat when they observe elephants in Africa and wonder why they haven't become the dominant Earth species.

Seen from time to time among the wide assortment of alien species in Perry Rhodan. A particularly conspicuous example, however, would be the mostly-benevolent Duchy of Krandhor introduced in the post-issue #1000 story arc, whose various member species practically ran this trope into the ground — anthropomorphic lizards, squirrels, (air-breathing) squids and whatnot united under the mostly-benevolent leadership of anthropomorphic "wolf-lions"... The subplot set there didn't exactly prove popular with the established fanbase, and while Petting Zoo People of various stripes have shown up both before and since they never did so again in such a concentrated form.

The moreaus of S.A. Swann's Moreau Series are mostly this, although some early types border on Civilized Animal. Moreaus are typicall bipedal, possessing functional hands and full speech capacity. Other human-like traits vary, although they're usually animalistic in appearance, and females lack visible breasts. Some strains have enhanced capacity for facial expression, and a few can even cry.

Journey to Chaos: These sort of creatures exist in Tariatla and are returned to as "demons" or "beast folk".

Oito looks exactly like a lizard, except he's over five feet tall, walks on his hind legs, and can use his claws like human hands.

Anuzat is a kangaroo but completely human in behavior. She wears clothing, engages in commerce, and hires bodyguards like the Dragon's Lair mercenaries.

In The Pride of Parahumans parahumans are transgenic hybrids created for asteroid mining. Most have this sort of look such as main character Argentum (bipedal humanoid fox), but there's other types such as uplifts that look almost entirely animal such as Cole (giant raven with wing-claws), and taurs like Aniya.

The protagonist of Learning to Go, a gay Porn with Plot novel, is an anthropomorphic tiger in an abusive relationship with a lion.

Hevisaurus is a Finnish band whose members are anthropomorphic dinosaurs and a dragon.

In the music video for The Dandy Warhols song "You Are Killing Me", a drunk man hallucinates being attacked by Petting Zoo People, which were played by real life Furries.

The music video "Dog Police" (by the eponymous band) has dog people, as well as a girl who is more of a literal Dogface.

Mythology and Religion

Some deities from Egyptian Mythology are portrayed this way. Not because the Egyptians thought their gods actually looked like this, but because those animals symbolized many characteristics and certain aspects of their respective deity (or were sacred to them) as the bird Ibis was to the god Thoth. (The Gods looked human and the "Petting-Zoo People" were their fursonas.)

In Police Force, the police officers are Petting Zoo People, sporting human-like proportions and wearing clothes that almost completely cover their bodies.

The Magic Shoppe proprietor in Magic Girl is a humanoid hare with five-fingered hands, wearing an earring and an armored vest.

Sports

Sports mascots are often this with animal heads on athletic bodies, and almost universally so when a physical outfit is used, since it's harder for a human inside to operate a non-human character and putting most of the effort into the head is more economical.

Exalted: Not only there are all kinds of Petting Zoo People (called 'Beastmen') in the Threshold, but if you're a Lunar, you can breed your own people. Nothing stops you from breeding the more outlandish kind.

Thunderscape has Rapacians (Lizard Folk) and Ferrans — Uplifted Animals originally created as slaves. There are 3 branches of them: mammals (the most common), avians (nearly wiped out in their war for freedom) and reptiles (scarce due to low reproduction rate). They can only crossbreed with ferrans of the same branch. Oh, and they aren't necessarily half-human, they can be based on any humanoid race.

Mutant Animals in Rifts are pretty much all this. The best known are the Psi Hounds AKA Dog Boys. Canine heads and tails on human, fur-covered bodies. Most have human legs, but some have legs more like canine hind legs, as researchers experiment with other forms. Other Mutant Animals in the Coalition, as well as the experimental animals from South America, follow the same pattern.

The Palladium Fantasy RPG, made by the same company (and whose races have crossed over into Rifts, has the Wolfen, Coyles, and Kankoran, three races that resemble (respectively) humanoid wolves, coyotes, and foxes.

All "normal people" (i.e., anyone who isn't an Always Chaotic Evil monster) in Pugmire are this. Many different species are mentioned to exist, though special focus is paid to the noble dogs of Pugmire and the deceitful cats of the Monarchies of Mau.

The Khajiit are native to the deserts of Elsweyr. There are 17 known sub-breeds of Khajiit, with the sub-breed determined by the phases of the moons under which the Khajiit was born. The appearance of the sub-breeds can vary wildly, ranging from house-cats through various humanoid forms to quadrupeds large enough to be ridden as Beasts Of Battle. Culturally, the Khajiit (with their cross-continent merchant caravans, propensity for stealth, and being the frequent victims of Fantastic Racism) draw heavily from the Roma. Their language, Ta'agra, has no word for "rules", which can obviously lead to issues in the lands of other cultures where the Khajiit's actions may be interpreted as "theft." Finally, as a race, the Khajiit are highly susceptible to Moon Sugar addiction. (As well as its more potent derivative, Skooma.)

Several other "Beast Races" are known to exist in or around Tamriel, though a few have gone extinct. These include the Imga (intelligent great apes) of Valenwood, the Sload "slug-men" of Thras (one of which appears in the Redguard spin-off game), Minotaurs, Dreugh, the extinct Lilmothiit "Fox Folk" of Black Marsh, and the extinct "Bird Men" who were the original inhabitants of the Imperial City Isle. Werewolves and other Werebeasts are also prevalent.

At least two, possibly three, of the known Akaviri races qualify. They are the Tang Mo "Monkey Folk", the Ka Po' Tun "Tiger Folk", and, possibly, the Tsaesci "Snake Vampires". (Sources heavily conflict regarding the Tsaesci, giving them something of a Multiple-Choice Past depending on the storyteller. It's possible they aren't snake-like at all.)

For more information on all of these (and more), please see The Beast Races sub-page.

One of the most immediately apparent distinguishing characteristics of the Breath of Fire series.

They and one or two Little Bit Beastly characters comprise a decreasingly large portion of the playable characters as the series goes on, culminating in the most recent game lacking playable PZP s entirely.

Some Pokémon, such as Lucario and Lopunny, resemble animals with humanoid bodies. Machoke is the straightest example, as it resembles a reptilian head on a completely human body.

New Worlds Ateraan has felines, lykos (wolf-like), and nykos (jackal-like) as playable races. Comparing members of the race to their animal counterparts is seen as an insult.

Thunderscape has Lizard Folk rapacians, and magically created humanoid-animal hybrids ferrans. The game has feline, canine, reptile, eagle PCs (who only differ with character portraits) and a rhino NPC; the novels mention much more species.

The god Armadyl and his race the Aviansie are anthropomoric Birds of Prey.

Although it never has been shown in the game, the god Bandos's concept art shows that underneath his armor he looks like an anthropomorphic rhinoceros with two Extra Eyes, one of which he lost. An earlier design that is no longer canon had him look like a pig.

Several of the gods of the Kharidian desert are like this, as they are based on the Egytpian gods mentioned above. One of them, Scabaras is a beetle man, who turned his loyal worphipers into beetle people in his own image as a reward. Amascut used to commonly appear as a lion headed woman (ironically she now fears cats). The others include Icthlarin (Jackal), Crondis (crocodile), and Apemeken (monkey, ape, or baboon depending on her mood), and possibly an unnamed camel headed god that Akthanakos sometimes took the appearance of.

The Dragonkin are Anthropomoric dragons. Despite the name, they actually existed before dragons. Dragons are the result of their experiments in creating a new race based on themselves but without Jas's curse. In early appearances that have now been retconned they resembled vultures, as they were inspired by the Skeksis from The Dark Crystal.

The Ilujanka or Dragon Riders are Lizard Folk. They are not related to the Dragonkin despite their similarities.

The Drakewing and King Black Dragon cosmetic overrides make the player look like anthropomorphic dragons.

Vampyres ranked Vyrewatch or higher or who have gone feral resemble bats.

In Kult: Heretic Kingdoms, the Taymurians are basically wolf-people. Some humans treat them as animals, hunting them for their pelts; naturally, this makes them disinclined to cooperate with humans, but Alita can change their minds by taking out some hunters.

Another video game by the Furry Fandom is the Visual Novel Major/Minor.

In Aviary Attorney, you play as a an attorney in 1848, Paris, in a World of Funny Animals. The game uses art by J. J. Grandville, a 19th century French Caricaturist who used Petting Zoo People in his art. Most characters are human with animal heads and sometimes necks. Some appear to have fur or feathers on their bodies and cats can extend claws, but most have relatively human proportions and very human hands. A few, including a cat, a frog, and penguins, have more animal-like bodies.

A number of Commanders in the mobile game Ark of War, such as Nekojiro (cat), Kid (rat), and Kakarrot (shark, with four arms). Also the characters on the Forge Ship (stag), Cargo Hold (shark), and Research Lab (doe).

Several monsters from Undertale look like this, such as Toriel who looks like a mixture of a human, rabbit, and a goat. Toriel may have been inspired by a creature from Irish mythology called a puca, which often appeared a humanoid with goat or rabbit like features.

Beyond Good & Evil: A bonafide petting zoo, Hillys is home to your run of the mill cat people, a little more exotic goat people or fairly exotic shark people. Pig people, walrus people, rhinoceros people and more exist.

CHEVALIER: The animal characters in this romantic fantasy adventure are a prime example. Here.

The cast of The Cyantian Chronicles are mostly human-animal hybrids created by an ancient alien race, largely divided into digitigrade Ricael (wolves, foxes, coyotes, jackals...), and plantigrade Talin (rabbits, mice, sheep, mounties aka felines...). But there's also quite a few aliens of this form and some new hybrids (most notably fruit-scented skunks and psychic raccoons) created by the fox.

Lackadaisy takes place in an American 1920's where all humans are cats. Other animals such as dogs and pigs exist as we know them; so even though the reader perceives the characters as cats, they are truly and essentially human.

The heroine of the webcomic Freefall is a genetically engineered wolflike humanoid who carries with her a ton of instincts, most of which she can control by concentrating. Her running commentary of how she fits into human society is one of the highlights of the series.

Just to give you a taste: Florence had to practice ventriloquism to be able to talk right, because she can't use her lips to say P, M, or B. She has to hold herself back from chasing small moving things (she has at least once leapt from a moving vehicle when someone threw a ball). She can hear sounds in a range humans can't, so some places that are quiet to humans are very loud to her, and she had to learn not to shout over sounds nobody but she hears.

And she really must remember not to bare her fangs when imitating a human smile. Although, her horrific grin allows her to get her own way a lot.

She also can't see all colours, so she carries a device that names objects' colours for her, in case it's important (probably good, considering that her occupation is nuclear engineer). She mentions once having dyed her fur blue because her friends said she looked good in blue - the result didn't exactly work out.

Sam Starfall from the same comic is implied to be a Cthulhumanoid under his suit.

In TwoKinds, the Wolf-tribe of Keidrans are the most militaristic beastmen faction. One of their princes was supposed to marry a high-ranking politician from the Tiger tribe to legally join forces and take revenge on humanity. There are also dog-keidrans and fox-keidrans.

Basitins, which are a feline-like species separate from the Keidrans, also count.

Kira (fox) and Toby (lion) from Chivalry And Knavery. They describe themselves as humans who have animals among their ancestors, but the details are never elaborated beyond "A Wizard Did It."

In Everyday Heroes, Uma Quipleure and her father resemble cows. Pity the poor guy who accidentally called Uma a stupid cow (which would be like calling a human girl a "big ape"). Uma can also make good use of Hammerspace.

The Ambis in Jix bear a slight resemblance to foxes. This was later explained by the fact that a different race of aliens abducted a group of proto-Ambis and planted them on Earth as an experiment and they evolved into foxes. Humans frequently mistake Ambis for "oddly colored dogs".

GELF in RankAmateur are usuallly this. The Virtual Intelligence programs are almost always given this form by their host AIs, as it is supposed to be user-friendly.

Ozy and Millie takes place in a world completely of PZP, although it's supposed to be an alternate version of our world (the setting is Seattle). Still, real world people have been mentioned but never seen such as John Lennon, Oscar Wilde and George W. Bush. So whether they're talking about animal versions of said celebrities or humans exist but are just never shown is unknown.

Terinu has the Vulpine, which are anthro foxes, and the Galapados (anthro lizards) which exist beside races like the Galen, who are a Little Bit Beastly and the Ferin, who are... god only knows.

Outworld is a sci-fi webcomic that features Petting Zoo People as its main cast.

Tower of God has Rak, a giant, humanoid Blood Knight alligator and Gyetang, a walking bird with a giant shuriken on his back.

Curtailed is a life embellished comic, so the people in it are actually human. They're just drawn as anthropomorphic animals.

DNA features genetically engineered children with super powers who have a combination of features from several different animals, known as species X. Other genetically engineered creatures also exist in this comic but haven't been shown yet.

Homestuck has a few character like this. Jack Noir steals the black queen's ring which gives him the traits of anything placed into the sprites before they enter the medium, and so when Jade enters the medium after Bequerel is combined with her sprite, he becomes a black humanoid dog, with wings and tentacles from the other objects put into the sprites. Later in the comic, PM finds the white queen's ring and becomes a similar winged dog. The comic also has a lot of references to the Furry Fandom. Equius has an obsession with Furry muscle fetish art, which Homestuck's author used to give Ironic reviews of. Dirk Strider also has some disturbing furry images (some of which are of people in animal fetish costumes) appearing on a screen in his room. In one Sweet Bro and Hella Jeff comic they appear as badly draw furry versions of themselves.

Isla Grace from Professor Amazing and the Incredible Golden Fox: receives a fox-shaped engagement ring from her husband-to-be, Parker, which gifts her with the ability to transform into a fox (both anthropomorphic and full fox versions). She then feels it's only appropriate to put her new powers to use in the service of her community.

The cast of Sequential Art has a variety of these, including Kathleen the cat, Pip the penguin, and four squirrels which share a flat together, as well as the occasional appearance of the Kat's friend Vanity (also a cat) from college, and her Jerk with a Heart of Jerk bunny rival Hilary. The two exceptions in the main cast are Art who is the Token Human, and their Team Pet platypus who doesn't speak.

Orion's Arm has Splices and Rianths, who are Petting Zoo People created out of humans and animals via LEGO Genetics. The difference between a Splice and a Rianth is based on their clade's origins (Rianths are usually descended from humans who made themselves more bestial, while splices tend to be descendants of genetically modified slaves), and is pretty muddled in general.

AJCO has a few - mostly canine in appearance, and quite a few of them are dead now.

4chan has /trash/'s mascot/"board-tan", cleverly named Trish. Unlike every other mascot (even /mlp/ has a human mascot, heavily based on /co/'s, natch), Trish is a very fat opossum who lives in a dump (literally and figuratively, this is a board called /trash/), dresses like a trucker, and is generally difficult to be with through her lack of hygiene.

All of the characters in Ruby Quest are anthropomorphic animals (based on characters from Animal Crossing), although due to the simplistic art style it's just limited to Unusual Ears. Ruby is a rabbit, Tom is a cat, Red is a fox, Stitches is a bear, Daisy is a dog, Filbert is a squirrel, Bella is a mouse, and Jay is a bird.

The majority of humanlike animal characters in Arthur are Petting Zoo People but some of them are an edge case of Little Bit Beastly.

For example, Buster Baxter is a Petting Zoo Person because his head looks reasonably rabbitlike, but his mother and father border on Little Bit Beastly because their heads look like human heads with rabbit ears and noses on them.

In a similar vein to the above, the three Nephews and Daisy were shifted into a borderline PZP style during Quack Pack. Donald, however, retained his standard design (although his body stands up a little straighter than normal, but not by enough to change where he falls).

Fenton Crackshell's girlfriend Gandree Dee in DuckTales is very much a PZP.

Many of the female cats in Tom and Jerry including Toodles Galore are either PZP or borderline PZP.

Mordecai on Regular Show is a naked humanoid blue jay, somewhere between a Funny Animal and a Borderline PZP. His crush, Margaret (a cardinal), is even closer to this trope, as is Rigby's older brother Don (despite also being nude). Mordecai's somewhat humanoid design contrasts quite a lot with Rigby's raccoon appearance, which isn't humanized that much.

Despite being about the same size as Rigby, Eileen probably counts. She's a mole with a Furry Female Mane, human-like breasts, and "fur" the color of a human skintone. Only her tail makes it obvious she's not human.

In the second cartoon series of Alvin and the Chipmunks, the Chipmunks are the size of 9-year-old human children but have the heads of rodents. In the case of the Chipettes, there should be an emphasis on the "people" part: they have animal-like faces, but they have human hair and apparently no fur apart from it (borderline the Little Bit Beastly).

Turtle Island is set in a world full of PZP, with likes similar to Ozy and Millie (see Web Comics above).

A painting of King Julien that Maurice was painting in one episode of The Penguins of Madagascar depicts him with this appearance.

In Muzzy in Gondoland most inhabitants of Gondoland look like dogs. Goblinoid Corvax was supposed to be a bat. Extraplanetary Muzzy is a green bear. The king looks like a lion.

The characters of the French-Canadian Animesque show The Mysteries of Alfred Hedgehog fit this trope, and with some characters, it's closer to Borderline LBB. Humanlike hair on male characters, some characters pretty much lacking a muzzle and just having a fur-covered human face with an animal-like nose, and (most surprisingly) humanlike ears are featured.

Babar has an interesting approach; almost a child-friendly version of Dr. Moreau. All the animals are normal at first, but after the little orphan elephant Babar goes to Paris and gets “civilized” he brings civilization with him to Africa teaching other elephants (and latter all animals in the jungle) to dress, act and live like animals all of them turning anthropomorphic in design. This, of course, hasn’t being absent of criticism as an alleged metaphor of imperialism.

The Get Along Gang plays the trope straight; all characters have animals heads and human bodies, and sometimes a tail.

Count Duckula with the borderline PZP case and only using birds of all kind instead of humans (and vampires).

Three of the students at Gravedale High were anthropomorphic animals that looked human from the neck down. They are Dog-Faced Boy, Elephant Boy, and a pig girl named Suey.

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